Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

I don't enjoy my work and don't get creative satisfaction if I do just one project and stick to it for years.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

I love my job. And I get to work with cool people.

I've been lucky in that I've always loved my job.

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.

I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

There's a lot of jobs that you can do that you can be miserable at. Making movies should not be one of them.

The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

I loved every job I had.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.

It's true that if you love what you do, it rarely feels like work.

It makes so much sense to just love what you do and go to work every day to get to get to work.

Emmerdale' is a great place to work and I genuinely wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be.

That's the career I've had - I've always had fun with the things I'm doing. At the end of the day, it's always fun.

Let's face it, I have a fun job at the end of the day.

I really enjoy working. It doesn't tire me.